Samba as PDC

[Keith Lynn]

I appreciate all the help you've given me. Something occurred to met that
I needed to ask about. When I run the three seperate instances of smbd
with different conf files, do I also have to run three seperate instances
of nmbd? Thanks.
     Keith Lynn

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:

> > I have my Samba server on a machine that has a real IP address and want it
> > to act as a PDC for machines on a different subset. What option do I need
> > to add to smb.conf to make this happen? Thanks.
> 
> do the machines on the different subnet know how to reach your solaris
> machine(ie: can they ping it?)
> 
> then you'll want to set the wins servers of the other machines to be the
> ip of the samba server (unless they already have a wins server)
> 
> 
> then: 
> turn on wins support in smb.conf
> wins support = yes
> 
> 
> if the other machines already have a wins server then you'll need to make
> sure you're samba server is broadcasting its existence to the wins server.
> 
> -sv
> 
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